This book will describe fundamentals and recent developments
in the area of Self-Assembled Supramolecular Architecture and
their relevance to the understanding of the functionality
of membranes as delivery systems for active
ingredients. As the heirarchial architectures determine their
performance capabilities, attention will be paid to theoretical and
design aspects related to the construction of lyotropic liquid
crystals: mesophases such as lamellar, hexagonal, cubic, sponge
phase micellosomes. The book will bring to the reader mechanistic
aspects, compositional considerations, transition within phases,
solubilization capacities, drug entrapment and release mechanisms
and transmembrane, transdermal, and other transport
phenomena. It will stress the importance of these
mesostructures to crystallization and polymorphism of drugs, fats,
and nutraceuticals and will discuss regioselectivity of organic and
enzymatic reactions that take place at interfaces and
within the channels of the mesophase. The book will bring studies
on the use of these mesophase as crystallization or particulation
media for the formation of nanoparticles and
nanocrystals. Chapters will discuss applications in the areas
of pharmaceuticals, food, cosmetics, plastics, paper,
agro-chemistry and industrial applications.

Nissim Garti, PhD, is the Ratner Honor Chair of
Chemistry, member of the management committee of The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem and the head of the Formulation Center of
the Department of Chemistry, and advisor to several global
companies. He established Adumim Chemicals' Nutraceutical Systems
(Nutralease) and Delivery Lyotropic Systems (DLS).

PONISSERIL SOMASUNDARAN, is the Director of the
Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced
Studies in Novel Surfactants at Columbia University. His research
examines surface and colloid chemistry of minerals, materials and
microbes, molecular interactions at surfaces, and environmental
engineering.

RAFFAELE MEZZENGA is Full Professor at ETH Zürich.
His research focuses on self-assembly processes in liquid
crystalline polymers, supramolecular polymers, lyotropic liquid
crystals, and biological and food colloidal systems. He is a
recipient of several international awards in the field of soft
condensed matter, including the John H. Dillon Medal of the
American Physical Society.

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